sidv

Scaling an 8-figure global consulting firm. Aiming for 9.

[sidv @sidv]

I don’t know about you but I’m having a ton of fun every day.

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

Spoke with many friends recently, designers and engineers, all people who've been doing it for 20 years or more and had a lot of success doing it.

And they all say the same thing. The AI stuff is genuinely useful right now. It's fast and things that used to take a week take an afternoon. Things you never even attempted because there was no time, now you can just do them. It's the biggest enabler ever.

But in the same breath, every single one also says that it's the least fun they've ever had in their entire career. They also mention it makes no sense to do it the old way. They're all in.

It's a strange paradox which I feel myself. Everything is possible now and I've never cared less about any of it. Both things true at once.

Not sure if thats just the feeling of the current moment, or if I just talked to people who're tired of the computer (since all of them been doing it for a long time).

[sidv @sidv]

100%

[Frank Smith @frank_smith1111]

I still hold that @MattMahanSJ was the best candidate for CA Governor. Alas, he entered the race late, and most Californians keep voting along party lines regardless of results.

As centrists, we need to keep pushing the movement behind Matt into the mainstream. These are winning ideas, and they point to a different way of doing politics:

1. Zero ideology, outcomes first
2. Get government out of the way where it’s a hindrance
3. Clear accountability for results
4. Try innovative approaches, fail fast, iterate

This is how government should operate in the 21st century—and how we restore faith in it.

[sidv @sidv]

@tobi Any footage of this actually driving?

[sidv @sidv]

Anyone have any driving footage of the Ferrari Luce?

[sidv @sidv]

This is why you don’t get industrial designers to design cars.

[sidv @sidv]

@sdamico @theamazingrandi @ImpulseLabs Try taking that off the pan though.

[sidv @sidv]

Likely anything impacting figma’s use in enterprises will not show up in financials for at least another year. With annual contracts in place, and B2B companies having ~6mo internal procurement processes for new software this will be a slow burn.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Quick update: not dead.

$FIG Q1 results:

→ 46% YoY revenue growth, accelerating for the 2nd straight quarter
→ Net Dollar Retention Rate increased to 139%, our highest rate in over two years
→ Raising 2026 revenue guidance for the year

Design matters more than ever.

[sidv @sidv]

Agent ≠ Chatbot

[sidv @sidv]

@bchesky @benhylak I mocked this up a couple years ago. Maybe I should actually build this now. It’s using an LLM underneath but presenting results and doing actions visually. https://t.co/qwH2u22V2r

[roon @tszzl]

new bay area races:

wasian (synthetic Uyghur)
chindian (synthetic Nepali)
windian (synthetic Persian)

[sidv @sidv]

As one of my good friends said - Merch will never be a bad business to be in.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Delighted to inform you that @Waymo merch has landed in SF 🙌

[sidv @sidv]

Spirit Airlines reconfirms why price can’t be your only competitive advantage.

[jamesrichardfry @jamesrichardfry]

in the era of ai

all designers can ship good code

few engineers can ship good design

[sidv @sidv]

@thesamparr @yungpanko This is a great option too. And you get some nice compliments too. https://t.co/Up7R30vrco

[sidv @sidv]

✅ across all my projects

[rauno @raunofreiberg]

How to make scrollbars not suck

scrollbar-width: thin;
scrollbar-color: gray transparent;

[sidv @sidv]

All these without a steering wheel. The future is now in the present.

[Tesla Robotaxi @robotaxi]

In formation

[sidv @sidv]

@HarryStebbings Rubbish

[sidv @sidv]

@marcportermagee We’re part of a TK-8 school district in Marin County, CA and seeing 8% increasing elementary enrollment from this academic yr to the next.

[sidv @sidv]

Yo @BlinkCharging , your text notification system is broken.

[sidv @sidv]

The act of creating, reviewing, iterating (based on the understanding of the problem), which in turn deepens your understanding of the problem further, launching, and learning is all design.

Claude design, Replit, canva AI, figma make, regular figma, sketch, heck even photoshop for the oldies here are tools to manipulate and help in the design process. Just like a pen is a tool. The ability to manipulate these tools to shape the form that fits the context is what design is. Not just defining the context.